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Susan Piver On The Heart Sutra And The Real Point Of Sitting

Podcast: Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo
Published: Aug 14, 2026
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Summary

Meditation gets marketed as a calm-down button, a focus trick, or the ultimate self-improvement tool. Then you try it and discover your mind did not get the memo. Sitting with us is Susan Piver, Buddhist teacher and author of Inexplicable Joy on the Heart Sutra, to name what’s actually happening when we practice and why the usual promises can miss the point. We talk about the misconception that meditation is mainly self-help. Yes, it can help in measurable ways, but Susan argues the deeper s...